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pole steady. By the side of each wheel there were tin cases 

 with oil dropping on the axle-tree to prevent its firing. The 

 boy placed on it is only to fulfil the articles. It started about 

 seven in the morning, near the six-mile house, and run 

 between the Warren and rubbing houses, came through the 

 ditch called the Running Gap, then turned to the right, and 

 run three times round a corded piece of ground of four miles, 

 and then back to the place it started from. 



The match was performed before a great number of spec- 

 tators, without any person attempting to ride with it, except 

 Mr. George Tuting, and Lord March's groom, who waited 

 on them to assist in case of accident. 



The time, taken by Dr. Monsey, Mr. Deard, and Mr. 

 Rowley, was 53 minutes 27 seconds, according to the three 

 umpires' stop watches, which tallied to a second. 



James Seymour was commissioned by the Duke 

 of Oueensberry to paint a picture representing this 

 celebrated Carriage Match. The picture, which 

 bears the names of the horses and riders, remained 

 in the Queensberry collection till it was sold at 

 Christies', July, 1897. 



An interesting advertisement in the Racing 

 Calendar for 1788 on page 366 gives an account 

 by the engraver of the picture : — 



" On or before the ist March will be published A Print (in 

 colours, from nature), executed in Bartolozzi's style of 

 engraving. Honoured with the patronage of His Royal 

 Highness the Prince of Wales, Noblemen and Gentlemen, 

 members of the Jockey Club, &c., /. Bodger (land surveyor, 

 Stilton, Hunts, and at 53, High Holborn) presents his dutiful 

 respects to the nobility and gentry, and acquaints them that, 

 at the request of many of his friends, he promises to publish 

 by subscription a Print, as a companion to that of Twenty-four 



